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04118aam a22005178i 4500 001 03AABBC2E96E11E8978F920F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181116010210 008 180502s2018 mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018015222 020 $a 0674057635 020 $a 9780674057630 035 $a (OCoLC)1023094595 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a JF801 $b .S277 2018 100 1 $a Salyer, Lucy E., $e author. 245 10 $a Under the starry flag : $b how a band of Irish Americans joined the Fenian revolt and sparked a crisis over citizenship / $c Lucy E. Salyer. 263 $a 1810 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a pages cm 520 $a In 1867 forty Irish-American freedom fighters, outfitted with guns and ammunition, sailed to Ireland to join the effort to end British rule. Yet they never got a chance to fight. British authorities arrested them for treason as soon as they landed, sparking an international conflict that dragged the United States and England to the brink of war. Under the Starry Flag recounts this gripping legal saga, a prelude to today's immigration battles. The Fenians, as the freedom fighters were known, claimed American citizenship. British authorities disagreed, insisting that naturalized Irish Americans remained British subjects. Following in the wake of the Civil War, the Fenian crisis dramatized anew the idea of citizenship as an inalienable right, as natural as freedom of speech and religion. The captivating trial of these men illustrated the stakes of extending those rights to arrivals from far-flung lands. The case of the Fenians, Lucy E. Salyer shows, led to landmark treaties and laws acknowledging the right of exit. The U.S. Congress passed the Expatriation Act of 1868, which guaranteed the right to renounce one's citizenship, in the same month it granted citizenship to former American slaves. The small ruckus created by these impassioned Irish Americans provoked a human rights revolution that is not, even now, fully realized. Placing Reconstruction-era debates over citizenship within a global context, Under the Starry Flag raises important questions about citizenship and immigration.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: Erin's hope and the forgotten right of expatriation -- Part One. The Fenians and the making of a crisis: Clonakilty, God help us! -- Exiles and expatriates -- The Fenian pest -- Civis Americanus sum -- Part Two. Citizenship on trial: A floating rebellion -- The voice from the dungeon -- All the world's a stage -- Part Three. Reconstructing citizenship: Are naturalized Americans, Americans? -- This is a white man's government! -- The politics of expatriation -- Private diplomatizing -- Treating expatriation -- Epilogue: Exits. 650 0 $a Citizenship $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Expatriation $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Expatriation $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Irish Americans $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Fenians. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1865-1898. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Great Britain. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Foreign relations $z United States. 650 7 $a Citizenship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00861909 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 $a Expatriation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00918322 650 7 $a Fenians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922918 650 7 $a Irish Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00978933 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214014811.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190103015805.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=03AABBC2E96E11E8978F920F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search